Dr. Leonid Gavrilov - “New Research on Measuring and Predicting Longevity”
Monday, March 10th, 2008h+ Phoenix Meeting - Radical Life Extension Circa 2008
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
http://hplusclub.com/phoenix/meeting20080301/
http://transhumanism.meetup.com/73/calendar/7202539/
Radical Life Extension Circa 2008
Date and Time: Saturday, March 01, 2008 from 3:00pm until 5:00pm MST
Location: Mesa Bookmans, 1056 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa, AZ 85210 | Google Maps
Description: The recent book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey with Michael Rae discusses the SENS approach to slowing down, repairing, and eventually eliminating the effects of aging, and then someday eliminating aging entirely. Is this approach any different than the fountains of youth proclaimed throughout recorded human history? Why are some people more convinced than ever before that defeating death is within our grasps, perhaps within mere decades?
Even if you do not support radical life extension research, or you think any real breakthroughs are centuries away, you owe it to yourself to follow along with a debate that rages from the world's laboratories to political centers like Washington, D.C., from the pages of prominent science journals to the online life extensionist, tranhumanist, and related communities. Why have critics abandoned mockery and outright dismissal of radical life extension to instead focused on new laws, policies, and veiled threats of forced deaths should the elderly live too much longer than average? Find out just were research and understanding are at today, circa 2008, and join in the discussion.
2008 Immortality Institute Director Elections
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008- 2008 Immortality Institute Director Elections
- January 09, 11:00AM MST - February 07, 2008, 10:00PM MST
- Description:
ImmInst Director nominations have been completed, and the following individuals have accepted:
Richard Leis
Nate Allen (Live Forever)
Justin Rebo (Elrond)
Sebastian Sethe (caliban)
Kenneth X. Sills (Lazarus Long)
Shannon VyffCandidates are now encouraged to create their own candidate topics (click here) to provide feedback for voters. Thus, voters are encouraged to delay their vote until they've had a chance to learn about candidates.
View Candidate topics here:
http://www.imminst.org/forum/2008-Director-Elections-f313.htmlOtherwise, all ImmInst Full Members can vote for one or more candidates (reply below) as provided by the Constitution:
QUOTE
http://imminst.org/constitution.php#art5_sec5# Votes may be cast from January 9th (1pm Eastern US) to February 8th (12am Eastern US). All ImmInst Full Members in good standing can vote. A voter can cast a vote for as few as one candidate or as many as all candidates on the ballot. However, a voter cannot cast more than one vote per each candidate.
# Accepting candidates with the highest number of votes are elected as Directors until all vacant seats are filled. If the last remaining seat(s) are claimed by candidates with equal votes in their favor, a new referendum shall be called where only these candidates stand to fill only the remaining seat(s). This second special referendum shall be resolved within four (4) days and be repeated as necessary until all positions are filled. Accepting candidates with the highest number of votes are elected as Directors. All Directors remain in office until all elections for the coming term have been resolved at which point the Directors whose term has ended and who were not re-elected shall be replaced by the newly elected Directors.
Immortality Institute Chat: John Schloendorn and Kent Kemmish
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008- Immortality Institute Chat: John Schloendorn and Kent Kemmish
- January 13, 2008 at 5:00 PM Arizona Time (4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern
- Description:
Chat guest: Imminst director and LysoSENS researcher John Schloendorn. Find out how LysoSENS research is progressing. Background information here and here. More details to come.
Chat Room: http://www.imminst.org/chat
Kent23 (Imminst member), another researcher working on the LysoSENS project will be joining the chat on Sunday evening.